Arizona State University School of Human Evolution and Social Change Professor Ana Magdalena Hurtado has been elected to join the 2012 cohort of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
The Arizona State University Parents Association honored Ian Gould, professor of chemistry and biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS), as the 2012 Professor of the Year for his lifelong commitment to science and his ability to inspire students to become innovative in often-difficult chemistry classes.
Equipped with a GigaPan robotic camera mount and Stitch software, an ASU media team trekked to the Mesoamerican ruins of Teotihuacán to capture the essence and magnitude of this ancient city, once one of the largest in the world.
Smithsonian Youth Access Grant and Vidyo video conferencing technology empower future teachers, middle school student learning and ecosystem science in Phoenix and Panama
Are you living in a food desert? Research in low-income communities helps pave the way to better urban health.
The average age of entry into prostitution is 12.8 nationally and between 13 and 15 in Phoenix. So when ASU graduate Jamie Roberts learned about “Dignity House,” a residential program for victims of sex trafficking, she was immediately drawn in.
Scientists have made a landmark discovery that could help women minimize or even avoid the risk of having a baby born with congenital birth defects. The study is published today in the prestigious international journal Cell.
One of the outstanding questions of the early Earth is how ancient organisms made the transition from anoxygenic (no oxygen produced) to oxygenic photosynthesis. A team of scientists from Arizona State University has moved closer to solving this conundrum.
Research at Arizona State University and Columbia University to better understand the intricate sensory and cognitive connections between the brain and the hands has won support from the National Science Foundation. New discoveries about such connections could benefit people with neurological disorders such as Parkinson's disease and cerebral palsy, and those who need prosthetic hands.
Patrick Kenney, professor of political science, founding director of the School of Politics and Global Studies, and director of The Institute for Social Science Research, has been appointed dean of Social Sciences in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.
Faculty and students from ASU will help give the gift of hearing to people in Malawi, Africa, this summer, with the help of the “AZ Walk to Silence Tinnitus” 5K sponsored by the American Tinnitus Association on March 24.
More than 400 years after Galileo’s discovery of Io, the innermost of Jupiter’s largest moons, a team of scientists led by Arizona State University (ASU) has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite.
This Super Bowl Sunday, while the New England Patriots go head-to-head with the New York Giants, cut your eyes away briefly to the sidelines to consider the cheerleaders. Who are these women wielding pom-poms?
The ASU Design School traveling studio introduced graduate students in architecture, biology and design to Panama's tropical forest and Smithsonian researchers. Their biology-inspired designs will be showcased in an exhibit "Learning from Organisms" on Jan. 24, 2012.
Computational modeling that examines evidence of how hominin groups evolved culturally and biologically in response to climate change during the last Ice Age also bears new insights into the extinction of Neanderthals. The complex modeling was done at Arizona State University and the University of Colorado Denver. Published in Human Ecology.
Payment mechanisms designed without regard for the properties of the services they cover may be environmentally harmful, say seven of the world’s leading environmental scientists, who met to collectively to study the pitfalls of utilizing markets to induce people to take account of the environmental costs of their behavior and solutions.
Little hombres in a gang of creepy, crawling critters are contending in the 2011 Ugly Bug Contest hosted on the Arizona State University "Ask A Biologist" website.
Philip R. Christensen, the principal investigator for numerous instruments of Mars exploration carried on NASA spacecraft, will receive the 2011 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award Oct. 13 at Arizona State University.
Water – its scarcity and adapting to its future – were center stage in the thirsty Southwest at Arizona State University Aug. 25 for a town hall videotaped by NBC Learn. The fast-paced event will be broadcast in November on The Weather Channel and featured in the December issue of Discover magazine.
Women harbor a fat-stigma even though their family and closest friends may not judge them as “fat,” according to findings by Arizona State University social scientists. Those research results, published Aug. 17 in the journal Social Science & Medicine, have scientists questioning the weight of messages from sources outside one’s social networks, especially those in mass media marketing.
The future of water in the American Southwest and around the world will be the topic of a town hall discussion at Arizona State University hosted by NBC Learn, the National Science Foundation and Discover magazine. On tap for the Aug. 25 event will be a panel of nationally-recognized scientists and public policymakers who will address the changing patterns of freshwater resources, as well as questions on how to develop more efficient and sustainable water practices.
The recent field of invasion biology faces a new challenge as 19 eminent ecologists issue a call to “end the bias against non-native species” in the journal Nature.
A mineral survey instrument to be built at Arizona State University is a key component in a new NASA mission to asteroid 1999 RQ36.
The top 10 new species announced May 23 by the International Institute for Species Exploration at Arizona State University include: six-foot long fruit-eating lizard, pollinating cockroach, Titanic-eating bacterium, mushroom that fruits underwater, bioluminescent fungi, bark spider, duiker, jumping cockroach, T. rex leech and pancake batfish.
Obesity is socially contagious, according to research published in the past few years. How it is “caught” from others remains a murky area. But findings from Arizona State University researchers published online May 5 in the American Journal of Public Health shed light on the transmission of obesity among friends and family.
The public favors equal custody for children of divorce, according to findings in a pair of studies by Arizona State University researchers that will appear in the May 2011 journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law.
When influenza pandemics arrive is severing social and business interactions with our neighbors really better than chancing getting sick?
A new species of a rugged and dashing darkling beetle was named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt on the 100th anniversary of a speech he gave at Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University.
In the new scientific biography, “Quantum Man: Richard Feynman’s Life in Science,” due out March 21, Arizona State University professor Lawrence Krauss depicts the Nobel Prize winning Feynman as more than “just” a brain. He paints a picture of Feynman by exploring the essence of the man as seen through his scientific contributions.
"The time for a human mission to Mars is now," write editors Paul Davies of ASU and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University in "A One Way Mission to Mars: Colonizing the Red Planet."
ASU's Sustainable Phosphorus Summit was the first international gathering on U.S. soil and an important milestone in the emerging global dialogue around phosphorus scarcity and sustainability. A consensus statement, released Feb. 10, reflects the optimism coming out of the summit around solution-building.
Six of the world’s leading scientists whose life work is exploring the puzzles of life will take the stage at Feb. 12 at Arizona State University to confront such big questions as: When, where and how did life originate? How can we find out? Can and should we create life in the laboratory?
In a paper published online Feb. 7 in the UK Institute of Physics journal Physical Biology, Paul Davies at Arizona State University and Charles Lineweaver from the Australian National University draw on their backgrounds in astrobiology to explain why cancer cells deploy so many clever tricks in such a coherent and organized way.
A pair of studies published Feb. 3 in Nature, detail a new method developed to determine structures of biomolecules based on diffraction from protein nanocrystals. The international team of nearly 90 researchers included 10 from Arizona State University, whose contributions included a protein beam injector and nanocrystals.
A distributed, yet coordinated scientific effort has led to the publication of four ant genomes in the online edition of PNAS. These publications are expected to accelerate discoveries and genomics-based approaches to understanding social behavior and developing pest management.
Fertilizer is rarely an inspiration for an art show, but on Feb. 5 at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, Ariz., sustainability, fertilizer and phosphorus scarcity will provide fertile fuel for creative vision. The juried exhibition, with more than 20 works by artists from Phoenix, Chicago, Portland and Houston, was created in partnership with the Sustainable Phosphorus Summit at Arizona State University.
The SCU-ASU Center for American Culture, officially launched Dec. 13 at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, is designed to be a model for Sino-American cultural engagement through university-to-university collaboration.
Evidence that the toxic element arsenic can replace the essential nutrient phosphorus in biomolecules of a naturally occurring bacterium expands the scope of the search for life beyond Earth, according to Arizona State University scientists who are part of a NASA-funded research team reporting findings in the Dec. 2 online Science Express.
Sid Bacon, an auditory psychophysicist at Arizona State University, is stepping into the role of editor of the section on hearing for the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research.
Biodiversity crusaders Peter H. Raven and Edward O. Wilson received Linnaean Legacy Awards Nov. 6 for their extraordinary contributions to taxonomy and the exploration and classification of species. They used the occasion to call on individuals and taxonomists alike to do their part to sustain the biodiversity of Earth, which includes identifying millions of species before they become extinct.
Physicist Lawrence Krauss, bioethicist Peter Singer, psychologist Steven Pinker, author Sam Harris, philosopher Patricia Churchland and philosopher Simon Blackburn will participate in “The Great Debate: Can Science Tell Us Right From Wrong?” at 7 p.m. Nov. 6 at Arizona State University.
Biologist Edward O. Wilson and botanist Peter H. Raven will receive the 2010 Linnaean Legacy Award Saturday, Nov. 6, at the New York Academy of Sciences. Each will also deliver a public lecture on the future of biodiversity. The ticketed event begins at 7:30 p.m.
Voters have until Dec. 15 to show their support for the bug they deem the most fascinating, unique or downright detestable in the 2010 Ugly Bug Contest.
A study published Oct. 19 in the open access journal Public Library of Science (PLoS) ONE, shows that not just human memories fade. Scientists from Arizona State University and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences examined how aging impacts the ability of honey bees to find their way home.
An international consortium of reform-minded educators unite in call for dynamism, curriculum reform and complexity in 21st century education. The group's website (www.curriculumreform.org) aims to spur a radical transformation in international educational reform.
An online science 'Ask a' format atrracts more than a million uses a year to Arizona State University's portal 'Ask A Biologist,' proving the power of providing science information that the public, quite literally, asks for.
In the journal Science, some of the world's foremost biodiversity experts from DIVERSITAS, led by Arizona State University scientist Charles Perrings, offer a strategic approach to the 2020 targets being considered at the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan, on Oct. 18-29. An approach that incorporates trade-offs, timing and complexity.
Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the science payload on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission, received the 2010 Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award Oct. 7 at Arizona State University.
What does it take to save a species in the 21st century? The specter of climate change, with predicted losses to biodiversity as high as 35 percent, has some scientists and managers considering taking their conservation strategies on the road.
President Obama announced his intent to nominate mathematical epidemiologist Carlos Castillo-Chavez, an Arizona State University professor, to the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.
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